It dates from RDA's early years in California, probably around the time he was juggling fruit and kissing whales. IIRC, the Unofficial Story is that it was taken by a friend, and used by RDA as a holiday card for personal distribution. I got the image from Kate Ritter's website, of course.
Whale juggling. It's a team sport. You need plenty of people for some of the smaller whales, and it's suitable for regional meetings of small seaside towns. The larger whales are used only in cooperative unified freshman orientation of the Big Ten Universities. They always know when it's going to be a good four years with plenty of very competitive football and weightlifting when that years crop of freshmen can actually manage to juggle the sperm whales. ;)
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*stares*
Where/when/HOW was this picture taken?!?
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Also? I read your reply as juggling whales and kissing fruit... ;-P
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